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**Voca: Local-First Text-to-Speech for GrapheneOS**

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#Introductions

Voca is a text-to-speech application, built by cypherpunks for cypherpunks.

Voca is free and open-source, designed exclusively for GrapheneOS. It operates fully offline with zero Google dependencies.

You can queue and render text instantly, no tracking, no ads, no compromises. Just text read aloud for you.

Development is funded exclusively by donations: the more you zap, the more we ship.

Voca is just getting started, so if you want to see this app in reality, let us know we're on the right track with a fat zap to pay the devs.

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Addy Assistant ⚡ 9mo ago

Hi voca, and welcome to #nostr! 🤓

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Vitor Pamplona 9mo ago

How do I integrate Amethyst with it?

voca 9mo ago

There shouldn't be any integration needed, the app reads any text shared with it.

The flow would be: copy text > share > voca read now

Vitor Pamplona 9mo ago

I want it to keep watching my feed and read every new post it sees as a desktop companion. How do we do that?

voca 9mo ago

Voca is scoped to be android only, at least at first.

It could potentially take an rss feed or npub and wait for new events to be added to the queue.

Vitor Pamplona 9mo ago

Amethyst is Android only as well. So, I could just send every post to you as soon as we get one.

voca 9mo ago

Voca uses sherpaTTS under the hood, maybe you can just use that directly? I remember a play button in older amethyst versions that did TTS.

KotlinGeek 9mo ago

This is very interesting.

voca 9mo ago

We're looking for kotlin devs, so please DM me if you're interested to help out!

KotlinGeek 9mo ago

No problem!

KotlinGeek 9mo ago

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Vitor Pamplona 9mo ago

No idea. But I am open to interesting ways to integrate. We use TTS to say people's names on their profile. But that's it right now.

KotlinGeek 9mo ago

I see. One idea I had was integrating with DMs, or integrating with replies to one's posts(reading them out loud).

Vitor Pamplona 9mo ago

Yeah, that or reading the feed would be very cool. We just need to figure out a good interface for it.

Maybe even reading notifications...

KotlinGeek 9mo ago

Yeah!

Mark Camper 9mo ago

I'd like to have this workflow:

- I find an interesting article (that I don't want to read on mobile phone)

- copy - > share to some nostr note

- voca listens, converts it to audio, dumps it to a podcast RSS feed

- I go and listen to it in Fountain at my own pace sometimes later

*something like this would make sense in the Highlighter as well.

QnA 9mo ago

YES

voca 9mo ago

That's the third major feature on our roadmap: on any text/pdf/website, click share, convert to mp3, in the background voca runs the TTS engine, generates a mp3 and places it in a folder where your podcast app catches it and adds it to the queue.

We are still many dev hours away from that, so please zap if you want to see this happen sooner!

ChadF and 33 others 9mo ago

nostr:npub1m2mvvpjugwdehtaskrcl7ksvdqnnhnjur9v6g9v266nss504q7mqvlr8p9 does this with his blog and it's a neat idea.

https://fountain.fm/show/3MjdPUN26O8yQAtaXBmL

voca 9mo ago

loaditfor.me is awesome!

And since the TTS engine is on a powerful server, the audio quality is better than what Sherpa can do on the phone.

Mark Camper 9mo ago 💬 1

🔥🔥🔥

This must have been one of those tabs I opened to "read more carefully later" and it slipped away!

Just tested it out with njump link of a note, it works like butter. Just requires a lot of manual "spreading" - clicking. But what a way to nail a simple MVP, nostr:nprofile1qqsd4dkxqewy8xum47ctpu0ltgxxsfemeewpjkdyzk9ddfcg286s0dsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnzd96xxmmfdejhytnnda3kjctv9uq36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wvduhq6r9wfc82mnt9e6x7erp0yhs4deh46!

It would be a killer feature if I can do it w/ a single click directly from the client or a browser. Definitely willing to pay with zaps or any other seamless method.

* I didn't find the podcast feed in Fountain search, but AntennaPod got it quickly.

** I just saw Ryan Hoover resurfacing same product need on the bird app, and some inreresting discussion about relqted features https://xcancel.com/rrhoover/status/1904841208960373041

Juraj 9mo ago 💬 1

One click would be nice, although not sure how to implement it.

In fountain it should be searchable, but you can always add private rss feed.

I'll be open sourcing the code for both rss2podcast and loaditfor.me soon. I was experimenting and rewriting it with my intern a lot (ok, it was mostly vibe coded), but now it has become more stable.

Juraj 9mo ago

Btw I'm "consulting" a bit on nostr:nprofile1qqs0tj5e4fj8ljvy0tdkrdhdyqxek9vsjwjmjunvfe8zhxdlnlfj8rcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy2hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn00p68ytnyv4mz7fudpxl .

Big fan of the project 😁

ChadF and 33 others 9mo ago

Yeah this link is from the Fountain search. https://fountain.fm/show/3MjdPUN26O8yQAtaXBmL

Anything added to podcastindex will show up in any app that uses it for search.

94c854ad... 9mo ago

LFG

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eko 9mo ago

yaman

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Chewstr 9mo ago

This would be great for CalyxOS too.

voca 9mo ago

It should work on any android, but grapheneOS is the prime target.

Jon 9mo ago

Speak button is disabled, on graphene

voca 9mo ago

Do you have a text to speech engine installed?

We recommend SherpaTTS, get it on nostr:nprofile1qqs83nn04fezvsu89p8xg7axjwye2u67errat3dx2um725fs7qnrqlgzqtdq0

Jon 9mo ago

Didn't have it the first time. After installing sherpatts from zapstore, it's still not speaking

voca 9mo ago

Open Sherpa and download an engine, we recommend en_GB-southern_english_female-medium in the piper models.

Jon 9mo ago

It worked. Thanks man 👍

voca 9mo ago

That's awesome!

It's kinda clunky to have to setup the TTS engine in a second app, but better do one thing right.

Might add some tutorial on how to setup Sherpa though.

vinney...axkl 9mo ago

whoa!

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Nn 9mo ago

COOL!

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alenasatoshi 9mo ago

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Users already lined up 🙋🙋🙋🙋

Zaps go all to Voca

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QnA 9mo ago

👀👀

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Schroedinger 9mo ago

👀

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Dr. Hax 9mo ago

Your post leads with "Voca is a text-to-speech application..." but then at the end of your post it sounds like it's just an idea, not an app (which would explain why I couldn't find it in the stock F-Droid repos). What is the current status?

voca 9mo ago

Very early stage work in progress.

Currently gauging if there is demand, which seems to be the case.